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Wednesday 09 July 2008

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A Class Act
In education, the average length of a school inspection has been cut from five to two days since 2006.

Schools also have fewer surveys to complete each year. The new, simplified term-based school census brings together a number of different surveys.

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The Usual Suspects
All 43 police forces around the UK have switched to video identification parades. They can be carried out in a third of the time and have produced a 20% increase in positive identifications.

What’s the difference now?

• Video identification parades have saved over £140 mil...

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A Healthy Saving
In the NHS, a review of central data collection has saved over 50,000 hours of staff time. In 2007, ten collections were discontinued altogether as they either duplicated information or were simply outdated.

The average length of an inspection of a large hospital is now betwe...

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